The Prime Minister's Office is among the top public authorities to have rejected the maximum number of Right to Information (RTI) applications received by them during 2013-14, according to an annual Central Information Commission (CIC) report released today.
The top slot in the list is taken by Ministry of Corporate Affairs which has rejected 28.85 per cent RTI applications received during 2013-14 followed by the PMO (20.49 per cent) and Ministry of Finance (19.16 per cent).
Following them closely are ministries of Power and Home, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministries of Personnel and Defence, President's Secretariat, Ministries of Housing and Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Another trend mentioned by the transparency watchdog in its report is that the public authorities are rejecting the RTI applications citing reasons which are other than those listed out in the RTI Act.
The analysis by the CIC shows a whopping 44 per cent of RTI applications being rejected by the public authorities in 2013-14 citing reasons as "others" and not giving any of the reasons in the RTI Act for rejecting the requests for information.
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